Android App White Labelling

General setup
Similarly to iOS, we have build flavours to generate our Official, Experimental and F-Droid versions of the app
experimental and official folders contain app icons and splash screens
play and foss folders contain necessary code to run the app with or without Google Play services, respectively
foss build doesn't contain push notifications implemented
main folder contains core implementations
debug folder contains code to run the app in debug mode
This doc is going to focus on building the Experimental app, so we're going to use experimental, play debug, and main folders
Set APPLICATION_ID, VERSIONCODE and BugsnagAPIKey on ./android/gradle.properties
Generate a new image asset for ic_notification and target main
Generate a new image asset for ic_launcher and target experimental
Change splash screen background and notification text color on ./android/app/src/experimental/res/values/colors.xml
Change splash screen logo on ./android/app/src/experimental/res/drawable-xxhdpi/splash.png
Change app name and share extension name on ./android/app/src/main/res/values/strings.xml
Generate upload key
This step will generate the keystore that is going to verify your app on Google Play
You can use this guide as reference: https://reactnative.dev/docs/signed-apk-android#generating-an-upload-key​
Execute the following on terminal
cd android/app
keytool -genkeypair -v -keystore my-upload-key.keystore -alias my-key-alias -keyalg RSA -keysize 2048 -validity 10000
Credentials will be prompted
Set KEYSTORE_PASSWORD and KEY_PASSWORD on ./android/gradle.properties with the passwords you were prompted
Generating Android app on Firebase
Visit the project overview on https://console.firebase.google.com​
Click on the gear icon and then “Project settings”
On “General” tab, click on “Add app” button under “Your apps” section and then “Android”
Enter your bundle ID and then “Register app”
Download config file and move it as instructed
Running the app
Execute the following on project terminal
yarn
yarn android-whitelabel <YOURAPPID>
For example, the app created on this document would use yarn android-whitelabel chat.rocket.whitelabel
Note: this script uses experimentalPlayDebug build flavor. When you build your app on release mode, use experimentalPlayRelease
Refer to https://developer.android.com/studio/build/build-variants for more info about how it works

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Contents

General setup

Generate upload key

Generating Android app on Firebase

Running the app